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...Washington last week, "let us do so with our eyes open." The conservative Senator's personal contribution to the effort seemed more calculated to make eyes pop. A 46-page study published under the imprimatur of Eastland's Senate Internal Security subcommittee last week blames Mao Tse-tung and his comrades for the deaths of anywhere from 34,300,000 to 63,784,000 Chinese since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists began fighting Mao Tse-tung's Communists...
...progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed of peoples of all nations and this gave it an advantage of the gradual accumulation of the wisdom of different countries...
Dinner over, Reston and Chou resumed their interview until past midnight. Then, Reston reported, Chou "took us to the door, which could not have been more than a quarter of a mile away." There would be no chance to see Mao Tse-tung this time, said Chou. "The Chairman is preoccupied with other matters. But of course you can come with your President next time." Reston declined with thanks. "I'll worry about him from now till then and let you worry about him after he gets here...
Despite Washington's "two-China" policy, Mao Tse-tung's regime may ultimately enter the U.N. on its own terms-as the one and only Chinese delegation. There is in fact only one seat marked "China" at the U.N. The U.S. effort to seat two delegations in the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (see box, page 25) will involve an effort to sidestep a fundamental issue of representation-if Peking takes the China seat, whom does Taipei represent? The strategy may not work; in truth, the U.S. might be relieved of some sticky diplomatic problems if it fails...
...estimate is 740 million, and most American demographers lean toward 800 million But not even Peking is sure of the size of the population it commands. The last published census, taken in 1953, showed 583 million. Peking now claims 700 million. But when American Journalist Edgar Snow asked Mao Tse-tung about these figures, the Chairman said in disbelief: "How could there be so many...